Our Story

I’d been chasing self-independence, which led me to open a retail business. Success with no capital for expansion led to its closure. I wanted a career, not just a job. I needed to oversee my destiny.  In 1978, I left my beloved Milwaukee and moved to California, where a civil service position awaited. It turned out to be one of the best decisions my wife and I have ever made.

I continued in a business background as an entrepreneur after work hours. My employment career began as a Government employee supply clerk. A few years before retiring from the “rat race” in 1996, I discovered my true love, writing. I started by publishing an online newsletter with my opinionated articles leading off each issue. Because of our base closure designation, I retired in 1996 as a Procurement Director.  In the next few years, I worked in the procurement field for a Defense Contractor, City, College Administration, and Private Contractor supporting Department vessels. By 2005, I decided to continue writing while managing my consulting firm. 

Since then, I’ve written my first book, Unchon-ni (2010 publication), a semi-biography tale about my military tour in Korea in the early sixties. By 2011, I added bi-monthly blogging to my writing resume. I began hosting Hamp’s Corner of America Blog Talk Radio show in June of 2014. I’ve also found the show to be an ideal platform for presenting ideas and comments.  The shows directed at people of color who may not see or hear the stories that speak to our interest from other American news outlets.  My website at http://hcoa.net is a compilation of all my works, interest, and musical taste. It's intended to display all my talents, dreams, and aspirations

November of 2013 brought about the release of my second book, entitled Gracie Hall-Hampton, the Arkansas Years, 1917-1953. It’s a tribute to my grandmother’s life and times while living in the segregated South of the United States.

After careful consideration, I began broadcasting Hamp’s Corner of America via Blog Talk Radio in June of 2014. I’ve found the bi-monthly show to be an ideal platform for presenting ideas and comments to a segment of our society that may not see or hear the stories that speak to their interest from other American news outlets. In December of 2014, my publisher released my third book, entitled The Episodic Thoughts of Hamp, or a Blogger’s 1666-2014 Perspective. It's pretty much self-explanatory. In 2015, I added a bi-monthly broadcast that allows me to do what I love, playing, and listening to Rhythm & Blues. The show “Hamp’s Selection’s from his Collection of Soul-Jazz Music, Vol_” is my favorite time to speak to my listeners through music. I’m free to use my favored soul and jazz talented recording artist as my lyrical orators. Check out www.blogtalkradio.com/Hampscornerofamerica/

In the politically charged years since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, most people have become accustomed to instant critique and sound bites from various media. More so than Obama’s election, the truth is often bent; twisted, shredded, and repackaged to resemble something that your conscience tells you is a lie. Independent thinking is not a lost art. Just because people with those types of opinions seem to dominate the landscape, they are still a minority, no matter their color or creed.

Now they have elected Trump. He is a man that is unqualified to hold the office and has no moral compass to lead. In that case, all we can do is pray.

The truth must be treasured and not compromised. Those real experiences supply the foundation upon which we built and thus enable us to do the right thing based upon facts. That is the creed upon which I’ve found my life in every circumstance.  No matter what, somehow, one should always do the right thing for all involved. It keeps one grounded. 

I’ve reached my senior years and have an enormous appetite to see our local communities grow and prosper at the hands of the people in that city. In other words, there is no help like self-help.

As of the fall 2017 date, I have written and published five books. One (Remembering Moz, Gracie & John Hampton’s First-Born), My latest is a fictional story out now, entitled Misguided Intentions. I am currently working on another book based on an adopted Cousin. An update of Unchon-ni, South Korea, I Remember 1962-63 been released in October of 2019. Just in time for the Christmas buying season. I am currently writing a book due out in the fall of 2020. More about that as time goes on. And finally there is a political environment book; about being black in America. I plan to start writing it in 2020. Most of my books are at my publishers/authors web site at https://outskirtspress.com/Unchonni

I can say at this point in my life; I am at peace with my work, my God, and my existence. Peace, and make it a day that Jesus Christ would be proud of,

Codis Hampton II, 10/29/2019

I’d been chasing self-independence, which led me to open a retail business. Success with no capital for expansion led to its closure. I wanted a career, not just a job. I needed to oversee my destiny.  In 1978, I left my beloved Milwaukee and moved to California, where a civil service position awaited. It turned out to be one of the best decisions my wife and I have ever made.

I continued in a business background as an entrepreneur after work hours. My employment career began as a Government employee supply clerk. A few years before retiring from the “rat race” in 1996, I discovered my true love, writing. I started by publishing an online newsletter with my opinionated articles leading off each issue. Because of our base closure designation, I retired in 1996 as a Procurement Director.  In the next few years, I worked in the procurement field for a Defense Contractor, City, College Administration, and Private Contractor supporting Department vessels. By 2005, I decided to continue writing while managing my consulting firm. 

Since then, I’ve written my first book, Unchon-ni (2010 publication), a semi-biography tale about my military tour in Korea in the early sixties. By 2011, I added bi-monthly blogging to my writing resume. I began hosting Hamp’s Corner of America Blog Talk Radio show in June of 2014. I’ve also found the show to be an ideal platform for presenting ideas and comments.  The shows directed at people of color who may not see or hear the stories that speak to our interest from other American news outlets.  My website at http://hcoa.net is a compilation of all my works, interest, and musical taste. It's intended to display all my talents, dreams, and aspirations

November of 2013 brought about the release of my second book, entitled Gracie Hall-Hampton, the Arkansas Years, 1917-1953. It’s a tribute to my grandmother’s life and times while living in the segregated South of the United States.

After careful consideration, I began broadcasting Hamp’s Corner of America via Blog Talk Radio in June of 2014. I’ve found the bi-monthly show to be an ideal platform for presenting ideas and comments to a segment of our society that may not see or hear the stories that speak to their interest from other American news outlets. In December of 2014, my publisher released my third book, entitled The Episodic Thoughts of Hamp, or a Blogger’s 1666-2014 Perspective. It's pretty much self-explanatory. In 2015, I added a bi-monthly broadcast that allows me to do what I love, playing, and listening to Rhythm & Blues. The show “Hamp’s Selection’s from his Collection of Soul-Jazz Music, Vol_” is my favorite time to speak to my listeners through music. I’m free to use my favored soul and jazz talented recording artist as my lyrical orators. Check out www.blogtalkradio.com/Hampscornerofamerica/

In the politically charged years since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, most people have become accustomed to instant critique and sound bites from various media. More so than Obama’s election, the truth is often bent; twisted, shredded, and repackaged to resemble something that your conscience tells you is a lie. Independent thinking is not a lost art. Just because people with those types of opinions seem to dominate the landscape, they are still a minority, no matter their color or creed.

Now they have elected Trump. He is a man that is unqualified to hold the office and has no moral compass to lead. In that case, all we can do is pray.

The truth must be treasured and not compromised. Those real experiences supply the foundation upon which we built and thus enable us to do the right thing based upon facts. That is the creed upon which I’ve found my life in every circumstance.  No matter what, somehow, one should always do the right thing for all involved. It keeps one grounded. 

I’ve reached my senior years and have an enormous appetite to see our local communities grow and prosper at the hands of the people in that city. In other words, there is no help like self-help.

As of the fall 2017 date, I have written and published five books. One (Remembering Moz, Gracie & John Hampton’s First-Born), My latest is a fictional story out now, entitled Misguided Intentions. I am currently working on another book based on an adopted Cousin. An update of Unchon-ni, South Korea, I Remember 1962-63 been released in October of 2019. Just in time for the Christmas buying season. I am currently writing a book due out in the fall of 2020. More about that as time goes on. And finally there is a political environment book; about being black in America. I plan to start writing it in 2020. Most of my books are at my publishers/authors web site at https://outskirtspress.com/Unchonni

I can say at this point in my life; I am at peace with my work, my God, and my existence. Peace, and make it a day that Jesus Christ would be proud of,

Codis Hampton II, 10/29/2019

 

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